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ZestyItalian2 t1_iy5kqtc wrote

Greenwich, Darien, Westport, New Canaan, West Hartford

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danhm t1_iy5n9xj wrote

West Hartford doesn't really belong on this list in my opinion. It does have some rich residents but the per capita income for the town is $54k. Greenwhich is at $98k, Darien is at $116k, and so on. It's more upper middle class yuppies in West Hartford than the ultrarich types you'll find in the southwest of the state.

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JaKr8 t1_iy70cmv wrote

It's somewhat relative, Avon/ Glastonbury/Farmington/West Hartford are wealthy towns with respect to metro Hartford.

New Canaan/Darien/Wilton/Weston (etc) are wealthy WRT metro NYC. Which makes them the elite of the elite.

Most of these towns are great places to live, we have lived ourselves, and/or have relatives in all of them save Darien.

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Few-Information7570 t1_iy670eu wrote

Stop trying to make west hartford on par with Gold Coast Fairfield county. Frankly west hartford is way more livable, human, and worthwhile.

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ZestyItalian2 t1_iy68fbt wrote

Those other towns are also extremely livable, human, and worthwhile. That’s why everyone wants to live there. Drive around Westport and tell me it isn’t livable. You’ll sound insane.

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Few-Information7570 t1_iy68yeu wrote

For one thing I don’t put westport on the same tier as Darien and Greenwich. I live in lower Weston and am very familiar with Westport. I find it has more shortcomings than positives where the people are concerned. Whereas in West Hartford, when visiting, I have found the people to be very normal and down to earth.

West Hartford is like any upper middle class suburb in any rich area in the country. Lower Fairfield county is a beast.

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Frequent_Jelly_4138 t1_iy85i0u wrote

What’re you talking about? The median home price in Westport is over 2 mil. And that’s not because of expensive outliers. There’s hardly any houses for sale there under 1M and anything that is will be bought overnight, redeveloped, and listed for 2.2M

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Few-Information7570 t1_iy86lw4 wrote

No I think the market is slowing. Anyway I’ve known westport for some thirty years. It has its cycles.

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Frequent_Jelly_4138 t1_iy8960q wrote

Ok fair but that doesn’t mean that Westport isn’t in the upper echelon of the state, certainly shouldn’t be lumped in with Weston and Wilton where homes are available for less that 7 figures

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Few-Information7570 t1_iy8d6sg wrote

This is an odd conversation ( a bit vomitous even). There are homes available in Westport for under 7

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WestRiverTraveler t1_iy8ixkk wrote

West Hartford and the Farmington valley towns are so desperate to be on par with FFC…lol. It’s like the people who move to Madison from Clinton or Waterford. They think they’ve made it. This is coming from a Madison resident who knows that Madison, West Hartford, etc aren’t on the same level as the $$$ FFC towns

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